Offer a Rush Discount Instead of Charging a Rush Fee
“I’m initiating a discount for speed. We’ll agree on the deadlines. I’ll go as fast as I can. And if you get me everything I need in the time frame I need it to...
Category: Career Growth
Career Advice For The Interested
This post features the best career advice I’ve found after consuming thousands of articles and videos about how to grow your career.
14 Things a Stanford Professor Believes Are the Keys to Good Management
“Sometimes the best management is no management at all — first do no harm!”
How to Create Your Personal Brand in 14 Steps
“Effective personal branding is owning the online space at the crossroads between when you’re doing something important and when someone that matters looks you ...
17 Ideas To Improve Your Creative Work From The Book “Perennial Seller”
I’ve recommended the book Perennial Seller by Ryan Holiday to people at least five times this week and countless times before that. It’s a must-read for anybody...
The Mistake Amateurs Make That Pros Don’t
When amateurs meet, they don’t edge each other out by being slightly more skillful. Instead, it’s a contest of who makes the fewest huge, gaping blunders. Amate...
How to Quit Your Job and Change Your Life
“Every one of you can forge a life so idiosyncratic that it’d be silly to compare yourself to someone else.”
How to Overcome Your Resistance to Committing to a Single Niche
Being top 20% in 3 different areas, make you top 1% in the combination. But, that’s true for any combination of 3 skills. So, show me that there’s a demand for ...
The Four Kinds of Side Businesses You Can Start
“The biggest key to successful side hustles that I’ve seen? Understanding that you’re not starting a startup. Get this idea out of your head.”
A Modest Guide to Productivity
“We’re all subject to superiors’ whims and putting out small fires. But usually — mostly — the things left on the list are our fears. There is no pleasant way t...